Helicogorgia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Calcaxonia
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Phylum: Cnidaria Classis: Anthozoa Subclassis: Octocorallia Ordo: Alcyonacea Subordo: Calcaxonia

Familia: Chrysogorgiidae
Genus: Helicogorgia
Species (5): H. capensis – H. flagellata – H. ramifera – H. spiralis – H. squamifera

Name

• Helicogorgia Bayer, 1981: 938 [replacemenet name]

Type species: Juncella spiralis Hickson, 1904, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Juncella [sic] Hickson, 1904: 231 [preoccupied by Junceella Valenciennes, 1855]

Type species: Juncella spiralis Hickson, 1904, by monotypy.

• Hicksonella Simpson, 1910: 682 [replacement name, preoccupied by Hicksonella Nutting, 1910]

Type species: Juncella spiralis Hickson, 1904, by subsequent designation by Bayer (1981: 938).

• Simpsonella Stiasny, 1940: 31 [replacement name, preoccupied by Simpsonella Cockerell, 1903]

Type species: Juncella spiralis Hickson, 1904, by subsequent designation by Williams (1992: 379).

References

Primary references

• Bayer, F.M. 1981. Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with diagnoses of new taxa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94: 902–947.
• Williams, G.C. 1992. Revision of the gorgonian genus Simpsonella (Octocorallia: Chrysogorgiidae) from the western margin of the Indo-Pacific, with the description of a new species from south-eastern Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 105(4): 377–405. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1992.tb01234.x

Links

• Helicogorgia in the World Register of Marine Species